As for the Carters, Burwells & Nicholas's, maybe I can offer some
assistance. There was a doctoral dissertation written at the UVA entitle
"Nicholas Family of Virginia, 1722-1820" by Victor Dennis Golladay, 1973.
The Nicholas papers may contain correspondences with Jefferson since George
Nicholas was a close friend. Also, George Nicholas's mother, Elizabeth
Carter, was married first to Nathanial Burwell.

Lonny Watro
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From: "Jon Kukla" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 11:07 AM
Subject: 1760s Friends and Boats


> For the chapter about Rebecca Burwell in the book I am writing about
> Jefferson and women, I've identified Jefferson's circle of friends in
> Williamsburg from his correspondence. Of the 32 young men and women
> mentioned in these Jefferson-John Page-William Fleming letters (all in
> volume 1 of Boyd's Papers) I've identified 28 with reasonable certainty -
> most of them were born between 1739 and 1748. Other remaining four are
> difficult to pin down not because they were obscure but because their
> extended families offer too many candidates for confidence - e.g. "Bob
> Carter" for a large family, many-branched family in which Robert was a
> favorite given name. And of course Jefferson, Page and
>
>    Two matters of curiosity arise from the information I've been
> examining:
>
>
> First, in regard to the brief mentions of "Ned Carter" "Bob Carter"
> "William Bland" and "P. Stith" in this correspondence, I'd be grateful for
> informed conjecture about the specific identities of these 20-somethings
> in Jefferson, Page and Fleming's circle of friends around W&M in the early
> 1760s. Unless a response has more general interest to others, off-list to
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>
> Second, a third of the young men and women in this circle are from
> Gloucester County, and John Page of Rosewell obviously was a very close
> friend at this time. As the crow flies, Rosewell is 8 miles from the Wren
> Building - 6 miles to the south bank of the York and then 2 miles across
> the river.
>      I'm curious transportation options in the 1760s: If Page and
> Jefferson "went home" for a weekend, holiday, party, or whatever,
> presumably they crossed the York by private boat or public ferry.
> Aside from tracking down statutory provisions for ferries in
> Hening's statutes (which I have not done), I wonder what scholarship
> might be out there about the ownership and use of small boats, or
> the operation of ferries, and such in Virginia ca 1760s. (I've seen
> carriages [and of course horses] listed in inventories but never
> noticed boats - though of course I was never looking for them.)
> Again, unless a response has more general interest to others,
> off-list to [log in to unmask] is fine.
>
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
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